Music Advocacy Facts

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The corpus callosum (the bundle of nerve fibers that connects the two halves of the brain) was found to be larger in musicians who started their musical training before age seven than those who started after age seven or non-musicians.

From: "In vivo morphometry of interhem ispheric assymetry and connectivity in musicians." (1994). In I. Deliege (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3d international conference for music perception and cognition (pp. 417-418). Liege, Belgium.

Available here: MENC - Benefits of Music Education Brochure, Spring 2002